Postcolonial Love Poem– Natalie Diaz(Faber) An investigation of the body as a site of trauma and of desire. Diaz connects the body to the land, the water (particularly rivers) and the air, showing how violation of the elements by white Americans has led to irreparable damage. This is als...
This article explores Natalie Diaz's translingual use of the Mojave language to address ongoing ecological crises, particularly regarding the Colorado River, and her understanding of language as 'touch'. First, I discuss how her poem 'The First Water is the Body' engages with the Mojave endonym...
(from “The First Water Is the Body”) Paul Muldoon Paul MuldoonNorthern Irish poet Paul Muldoon, 2017. The son of a laborer and a schoolteacher, Muldoon grew up on a farm inNorthern Ireland. In college he was tutored by fellow Northern Irish poet and Nobel laureateSeamus Heaney. Muldoon...
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz Read 3 I Want! I Want! by Vicki Feaver Read 4 Fury by David Morley Read 5 Tiger Girl by Pascale Petit Each year, the judges for the Forward Prize select a shortlist of the best new poetry books. In 2020, they chose five collections ranging in ...
“Wade in the Water” (Show more) See all related content Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972, Falmouth, Massachusetts, U.S.) is an American poet and author whose writing often confronts formidable themes of loss and grief, nascent adulthood, and the roles of race and family through ...
ByNatalie Beach first personMay 25, 2023 Making It As a Model Meant Hiding I Was TransI kept my real self a secret for years. ByGeena Rocero motherhoodApr. 20, 2023 We Don’t Perform Motherhood for Our KidsI consistently fail to achieve my fantasy of maternal grace — but you’d never...
The first slogan is probably the most contradictory of the three. The people of Oceania believe that the saying War is Peace means that in order to have peace one must tolerate the horrors of war. It does not equate the two as the statement might otherwise suggest. The people...
s own body, allowing him to articulate sound through concentrated gesture. A direct sonification of muscle activity where we hear the neuron impulses of muscle exertion as data. Throughout the piece, the raw data is first heard, then filtered, then excite resonators and filters.” Interwoven ...
The Beauty and the Beast love story between Nick and Natalie is also lovely. Still, like many series about immortal characters, only a portion of the series takes place in the past. But the gothic storytelling in the flashbacks makes for compelling television. ...
Monica Youn: The poem in the book that scares me—that nearly scared me out of writing it in the first place—is the “Blackacre” sequence. I knew as early as 2011 that I wanted to write a poem about infertility that took Milton’s Sonnet 19 as a framework—an “On my barrenness”...